#433 - Family Affair Book One Eric Stanton ebook

Family Affair, Book One
Eric Stanton
1975

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The preface to Family Affair, a 100-page, hardcover book published in 1975, says that the story was suggested by friends of the Maestro. But it is Mr. Stanton, through his pencil drawings, who tells us what happened in this bizarre household that has no antecedent in fiction or film.

Of course, the illustrations show the shapes, moods and intensity of Lorraine and Dolly, the formidable ladies who have seized control of Henry's home. There, they subdue, injure and intimidate the man of the house, his son, Teddy, and daughter, Lilly. And while it's difficult to imagine Mr. Stanton receiving more praise than he deserves as an accomplished illustrator who achieves his objectives, Family Affair reveals him as a creative story-teller, who delineates characters with personalities that drive events. It also appears that he wrote and lettered the dialog, which appears in borderless balloons.

For those who enjoy femdom narrative, Family Affair, Book One, is a tasty treat for the eye and imagination. In the opening sequence, teenaged Dolly boxes with her step-brother, then wrestles him, fixes him in a scissor hold between her pretty legs, twists his arm, smothers him, pins him, then sits on his face and obtains pleasure that makes her smile. While this occurs, her mother, Teddy's step mother, sits on a chair and coaches her daughter to perfect her wrestling technique.

Henry appears with his head bandaged and his arm in a sling. Apparently, the honeymoon was over. When Henry protests Teddy's punishments, Lorraine picks up a baseball bat. Then, she spanks her new husband with his belt, his head between her thighs, as Teddy and Dolly observe.

The remainder of the book shows more spanking, bondage, face-sitting, and humiliation. To situate characters in an institutional (e.g., a wife sending her husband to an academy for training or vice versa) setting that “teaches” something through series of restraints and punishments is a familiar idiom in the history of s-m fiction. To place the characters in the intimacy of a household, to have step-mother and step-sister enforce a painful regimen of arbitrary discipline and derive orgasmic pleasure from it is an audacious fantasy that few have described in any medium. (A similar scenario is shown in the series of 16 drawings by Gregor: a married couple and other family, under the mean dominance of the new lady of the house.)

The audacity of the narrative and its humid details distinguishes this work from everything that precedes it. To acknowledge the circumstances as a fantasy with erotic value, to expect that others will enjoy the eroticism of preemptive females and subjugated males demonstrates audacity and confidence of colossal scale. It is a pioneering work.

The anthologies of the 1990s made Mr. Stanton renown for his other fiction involving angry wives and their cowed spouses. Family Affair is not part of those collections. It sells on rare book websites for more than $100. It's pages are available as downloads on many pay and free websites.

One ebook is a digital replica of the original 100-page volume, including the front dust jacket and the preface. Although the ebook pages are small, the scans have 600 dpi resolution. No changes have been made to adjust the tonality of these images.

The cover announces 155 illustrations and the contents accomplish this by placing multiple pictures on many of the pages. The optimized ebook breaks pages apart and places each panel on a separate wide ebook page. Dialog balloon have been moved to the side in many cases to allow the grand female figures to fill the pages from top to bottom. Contrast has been adjusted. In a few cases, some features have been repeated enlarged.

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